Congressional Democrats

Experts: Suing the Government Not an Option to End Shutdown

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent January 24, 2019

“What I fear is this administration and our Republican colleagues in the Senate have forgotten is that this is the people’s house,” said U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pennsylvania).

Julianne Malveaux Opinion

A More Diverse Congress, a More Perfect Union?

Julianne MalveauxJanuary 11, 2019

No freedom in this homeland of the free, but this Congress offers freedom possibilities. It offers the possibility of fixing the Voting Rights Act, even as the Supreme Court has attempted to erode voting rights, even as at least two elections were stolen in 2018, those of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida.